by Jacqlyn Kirkland | Jan 12, 2021 | News
Despite challenges posed by the pandemic, the USDA Forest Service announced it surpassed goals in 2020. The agency sold more than 3.2 billion BF of timber, the second highest level in 20 years. It also improved forest conditions and reduced wildfire risk on more than...
by Jacqlyn Kirkland | Dec 22, 2020 | News
America’s loggers will have an opportunity to receive much needed assistance to offset losses experienced due to the COVID-19 shutdown. The Emergency Coronavirus Relief Act of 2020, which passed by a bi-partisan vote in both the House and Senate, includes language...
by Jacqlyn Kirkland | Dec 14, 2020 | News
Always on the lookout for efforts by the mainstream media to investigate and report on news and events in forests and the forest products industry, the alert Timber Harvesting staff recently came across this description of logging in the Denver Post newspaper: “. ....
by Jacqlyn Kirkland | Dec 14, 2020 | News
Forest products industry, environmental and conservation leaders have announced an agreement of principles on the important role sustainably managed forests and forest products can play in mitigating climate change. The principles were signed by the CEOs of 43 forest...
by Jacqlyn Kirkland | Dec 10, 2020 | News
West Fraser Timber Co. Ltd. is acquiring all of the outstanding common shares of Norbord, the world’s largest oriented strandboard producer, for $3.1 billion. Following closing, the combined company will operate as West Fraser. “Norbord’s OSB production is a perfect...
by Jacqlyn Kirkland | Dec 7, 2020 | News
Safety specialist Jason Todhunter of the Montana Logging Assn. recently published an interesting safety note for loggers working in snowy conditions: When operating on public or public access lands in snowy tracts, loggers many times are hauling on the only road...
